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LITERATURE. 4Ncycz OP./ED/A BRITANNICA. Part CIII. Black and Co., Edinburgh, 1838* _" Alth ough the national title of Encyclopaedia Britan. I t i l!!," o b serve the spirited proprietors of this great under- ITLuting, " has been retained in the present edition, yet in , anY respects it deserves to be considered rather in the i i ght ur a new work ; which while it exhibits a comprehen ve et, of the present state of knowledge in every depart thetzletlt, is also a repository in which are treasured sonic of ~tmost masterly disquisitions which have adorned the tile etlrature of the country within the last fifty years." There n exaggeration here, high as is the praise, and strongly prepossessedhs as may seem the quarter whence it proceeds. fees it to is really an d tru l y j ust what its proprietors pro: ter! t? be a repos i tory o f some of the " most mas T or disquisitio ns " o f which modern literature can boast. k `l iat e Part befor e us is particularly rich in them. We have . 48 ' a n d elaborate Essay on ' Poetry" by Professor M h o!? co . e°n ' nn " Poisons," by Professor Christinos ; a ,t. Po fifth, , lasi: . °la r Seas," by Sir John Barrow ; a fourth, on tonedoo fifth`ati of Light," by Messrs. Arago and Young ; an hotl: f Polit I E •" by Mr. Macculloch ;to say lea Economy," l i ce , n 0 several minor articles, in each of " to 4 1 and research are manifested. The essay onPoetry," 1:40 18 the most elaborate, so also is it the most successful effort yet made by Mr. Moir. We like it the better hi at its author, exciting as is his theme, does not allow b it, b a ,, e , l f to be hurried into extravagance or enthusiasm by of ,•". vi ews it, in all its bearings, by the sober day-light issense. His distinction between fancy and is °o e of very happily made, but the question ris e ; o k f _ °lase subtle and complex ones, which no theo to settle "9 ever 0 . ingeniously propounded, will . ever be able Part, n any thing like a certain basis. For our own that is believe that fancy and imagination are in escence— arid i t s k t° say, as suggestive and creative faculties—just one (lift '`'e same ; and that the application, makes the only er ee „ tle ce '. between them. Mr. Moir's remarks on the study ar e ssa rY to form a poet, are as sound in thought, as they e ter,. , ,-- chaste in expression : t iiit 411 addit," he observes, .. to the natural gifts of rensi._ f ah ! to feel, memory to retain impressions, imagination d and 1 4 ;1 tu fashion new conceptions, and judgmoesnateetoomble inultaited, ktur ?'Y all the materials which have beenth the ems just as essential for the formation ofthe poet, as for studqUisition and practice of the most mechanical art That Al l i e l h re gards both the materials of poetry and the language by %h er theY are to be ccmmunicated in . a sible form to laibi,'• Study of men in the different conditio s n e s n of . life, and the st.,,`Of observing and systematizing these observations ; study escape to th l erilal nature so as to mark the peculiarities which re se -tb 4 ey es - the accustoming the mind to search for . ite in el bl eness among things different, and . to lay them up in the te e ° rY as in a treasury ; these are assistances which no poet is deprived 9verook, and without which the imaginative faculty evea. of its due nourishment and of half its power . . For, t ta ust Cagination does not strictly create out of nothing ; a i l, I nd d quicke ned and set in motion by something extern changee materials on which it can try its processes of or recombinati " Ilpon, o a t s h etir. tviiords, imagination must have . legs . to . stand 14.1411Sha.k.sp:;•el,a4thweings to fly with. Alluding incidentally author remarks that he " seems to e sli a e i ; like the universal sun, over the provinces of emotion, at, telli ng all alike," which is a truism neatly and aptly ho._ The account of Hebrew poetry is just, and in places sad Harr considerable critical perspicacity. "Of dramatic ief` narrative poetry," we are told, " the Hebrews have f °rt n h ? BPeci mena"—a fact which has often surprized us, (41 ;4 11, we should have imagined, would have been the form 48 7ra r .. Y composition most natural and most adapted to the . ,J ew t e a of such an energetic and impassioned people as th si,i ss l Whose annals, too, abound in such startling, dramatic eei: ttl s. Mr. Moir next proceeds to expatiate on . the ol u s etrY, and speaking of the character of Ulysses in " fi 3 1 eY, says-- laq, a is a conception more in harmony with ancient than he dery • 11 `iews of heroism. Our ideas on the subject have li 'sa str %ou r • °ngly influenced by those notions of the . point of da te tritroduced by chivalry, that we do not easily sympa *Sys rh "h a hero who, though not deficient in bravery, is al p!kls - t :', r e ready to employ craft than courage, and only ep %l4.4,•",,arrns when artifice is found to be ineffectual. The told'hvr embodies the idea of en accomplished man of the after the manner of ancient paganism ; and it is there- I t is:',ilt,hsorne effort that we, whose ideal of such a personage stake I;,,:" r ent, interest ourselves in his fate. Yet he does - Po e - Way at last into our affections. His character grows n t hi t4 4B, li ke the gradual influence of good sense. Huma n tnisioteeP forth under the guise of impassive constancy and •;' His home-sick longings for Ithaca, is a re .414(11;13 t he Power of love under the influence of Circe, h, 8 of our common humanity." illa-" sen tenn which w , have marked in italics, appositely sb 4 trat s ,, ,1. --- , T e • . -1 • of Ulys ses, which, how -,es ~,, -- t he Homeric conception b f i tlCßi nir able, sinks into insignificance when compared nhle6',uailtsPeare's conception of the same character. In ' ° e vs -ee K Poet, the wandering Ithacan urges few things, in ;1.4 ar ef thought or feeling, that we care to remember, kokr,itill traordinary sagacity they may possess ; but in the INT, 84.11 d ramatist, he is constantly furnishing the reader () Pip; 'uod for philosophic reflection, and throwing out ak - Pa . steeped in worldly wisdom. Mr. Moir's hints 11 41 e ', tin poetry—for they are little more—are scru- V ir ° R iPY . in keeping with - good sense, so far as I ti llte :a concerned, but we demur to his esti 'etiti„,°' Ovid, of whose " extravagant luxuriance and laks 0,-14 conceits " be speaks in terms of somethinglike ? t il t ', . 5 We regreti this, for in •fancy, and the various or s ni poetical powers, Ovid is unquestionably the , 11 (i t if tu.e Roman writers. If he have not the sustained .B°'fied elea•ance of Virgil, neither has he his mon 41110,141 freo 1* t t ness. His defects are not s . o 4 414 ,ie - sii: ea nceit u s7 as excess of fancy . ; and his style is Ne A---ann ple—copious—sententiousjust as . occasion 11 a" ilas. s i n h is Tri There arc many passage S N iti rePle te with the simplest pathos ; and his ex- U " o f the " Pythagorean system" is the . most Itlil ell ei t and animated piece of poetic declamattot? with_ beeti ti k i le are q •t d On the tempting subject of -1 ; 4 " Pbetr a ' c ' -uali a l u e th . or descants at some length. His . 4Deeir4ticistns Ire our r ose on Spenser and Dryden ; but m th ilit Y 8 , 1 " 11 0 1 the latter, while he condemns his " bombastic . 0; 444 444 , '1 w i1 1. t5 h all h notice ti r of his splendid translation of are merit of containing many i 4 al ge t B ' e Peci l i e illy in aa the ie sixth book, superior to the mad fr-A, tteldl 3: His sketch of the sybil . who is represerte . i fi r ..11? " along the waste dominions of the dead," is ktetleeptleite•van Virgil's. Mr. Moir's remarks on Thompson tsfit be , but we should have been glad . that he had said ItPil' 1, ns about his plays for several dainty bits of poetry Pt . . f nund in them • arnong others this pass . age, de 'N:4 (:if the feelings' of a man—Philoctetes, Ifw:Lre `, elthtly--who has been left on a desert coast Ivl s t on the wildest of the Cyclad isles, Tisu_ere never human foot had marked the shore, eese ruffians left me; yet believe me, Areas, ° eh is therooted love we bear mankind, 4 11 , heartless as they are—l never heard 14: 11 1e atr 'und so dismal as their parting oars !" 10, h ot ?ng, instinctive yearning after humanity ; the ti p il!ke st r e 'eas sense of desolation expressed in the simple, 0 ,,.‘ , 1 16 _ lt lgical, words, " parting fi oars ," were never so Ite li a....fs:°nveyed as in the above fi n f e th p l as n s e age. Tne very et:etiet.`"si.abrupt break-off inthe i has a most pt a lltea qnificance in it. On the whole, Mr. Moir has A i Ain is u; task with signal ability ; and few essays of the 4,Kt ti uetter bear a second perusal than the one we have of gis fi s rtlY noticed. tf tt , L Wri - i t n t 'cle headed " Police" is clearly with h e production the working )11.1t•ttle L ° w ho is intimately acqu h ain s te n d s w with a sketch, as t t !eal .._`' .11 system. It furnishes these establishments, calk la t n ", it is comprehensive, inent ; and in the statisti .p,,, . on ~.. te `'atli °r It, corrects the errors of former . statists. Its eliti ladle a. te, ,Passages consist of a summary of the various . k n 'eo ll , „ r an efficient system of police.. " Political N fl , ll . 3', ~i s by Mr. Macculloch, , compiler of the well tseNyin "Mmercial Diction . a . ry, and is valuable, as ati el • R the matured opinions of this celebrated ette I st. Q . NI co ot ..tr John Barrow's article . on the " Polar 4 0 1 ,, 1 exl s , l 4 . l ns a compact historical digest of the nume- V tit o e ' l linns of discovery which have been . made !e s , l i t se e : to time to these inhospitable regions. , B , y 4. 1' toi l - " fi that the Russians have recently discovered a ° ra, vo,s4.(lerable extent of land to the southward of Cape . gin I NC„ e1:1 is covered with snow and wholly barren ; a n d a d %- k i l ' uph n -, ,, tr ee nor shrub of any kind. It is also," 411th eru I un inhabited, there being no such people . in the n sti:eked,uetnisphere as the Esquimaux ; and it may be )0 11 , 4 L e k t hat no human beings are found in the southern_ e_ Pp 4 thr the fifty-fifth parallel of latitude, and none b koetto,'. fiftieth, except on Patagonia and Terroa. the lis q 4 . l lis o 2.Ve have given a hasty notice of so , m , e t re p e. 14 v at kt idr4: u nt articles in this Part of the Ency . 1 ki ts 111 ?l ea ;" but there are many others abounding ° fie ll ;°,atters of information, and which deserve more Or; u4° We can afford to bestow on them. 111 1 :4t° Unt 11- --- i - , -- ‘fte th i Nn C,,,., Melbourne, accompanied by the Hon. \r" °ou, f- - F ." Per, arrived in town at two o'clock yesterday t o to Icou ?r a a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. l i Wti r-ettstterdlia owick and Lord Glenelg returned Thor C a , , Y afternoon from a visit to her Majesty at 1 4 IA 13 6 tie r V il inir tl 6 - 0 , Rutland left town on Saturday last titti ll e at l• ~ ,„Earl ~ Th 4tarapt of Surrey left town on Saturday for tip ti e t °o• tt, ky ford of 4 1 t . Shelburne left Lansdowne House yes -I,;Pobt. w ood Park, accompanied by the Hon. H. ktl tl e Earl ; t he °t her f ()* Y arborough, Lord and Lady Worsley,_ . the then of it are on a visit at Sprotborough Hall eg_ olr "ePh William Copley, near this town,-- Ciironicie, • . ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) FRESHWATER, DEC. 2.—The gale of last night completely destroyed the French brig which was on the beach at Comp. ton; she was driven up so high that great hopes were enter• tained that the cargo, if not the vessel, would be saved. During Saturday about sixty quarters of wheat and some of her materials were secured, but at highwater (midnight) the sea rolled in so heavily that she broke up into a thousand fragments, which now line the shore ; the beach is covered with the wheat. _ COWES, DEC. 3 —The brig Brazil Packet, Henrickson, which grounded on Shrape mud, in corning into harbour yes terday, was warped up to Mr. Day's wharf during the night, and a number of hands are now engaged landing the cargo (hides); men are also kept constantly at the pumps. The following verse s have also commenced discharging► their cargoes at the same wharf :—The Swedish bark Frede ricka Wilhclmina, Captain Schrolder (salt); the American brig Malaga, Reymond, general cargo; the Norwegian schooner Anna, Molle, salt fish. All of them are in a very leaky state, having suffered severely in the gales, and when they will end God only knows. The gale was terrific last night; at ten p.m. the thunder was very heavy the heavens were one sheet of fire, and the rain descended in torrents. At eleven the Tweed, timber laden, for Southampton, from Quebec, came into the Roads. She experienced very bad weather, lost sails and sprung her mainmast; she came into the Needles without a pilot, the weather is so bad outside they cannot board. James Corke, of the Nancy, pilot vessel, who was drowned on the night of the 28th of October, was picked up on Thurs day, and entered this day. DEC. 3. —Wind S. W., strong.—Arrived the Dutch ship Jacob Catts, J. W. Derrick, from Amsterdam. foremast sprung ; reports that the Channel is covered with wreck, saw a boat with four men in it, but c)uld render no assistance ; the Hamburg ship Dorothea, P. Johnston, from Rio, with sugar for orders. Assistance has been sent to the vessel stranded at St. Helen's. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen rode out on horse back this afternoon, attended by the Baroness Lehzen, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Hon. Miss Murray, Lady Fanny Cowper, Lord Torrington, Colonel Buckley, Sir F. Stoven, and Mr. Brand. The Royal party proceeded through Old Windsor and Woodside, crossing Englefield Green to the Bagshot road, thence through Egham, and returning by Priest Hill, Old Windsor, and Frogmore. Ladies Cowper and Tavistoek followed in a pony phaeton. The Hon. Mrs. Brand and Hon. Miss Pitt rode out in a pony pltet..m. The following took their departure this morning :—Vis count Melbourne, Lord Glenelg, Hon. Wm. Cowper, and Lord and Lady Howard. Mons. Van Praet and Baron Dieskau have arrived. Colonel Bouverie, of the Royai Horse Guards (blue), will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party this evening. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended b) Vis count Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord Glenelg, the Earl of Minto, Sir J. Hob house, Lord Holland, Mr. P. Thomson, and Viscount Howick. The Council sat two hours. Lord Minto transacted business yesterday at the Admi• ralty. Lord Glenelg transacted business yesterday at the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's Office in Downing-street. Lord Howick transacted business yesterday at the War Office. Sir John Cam Hobbouse transacted business yesterday at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Office in Downing street. Mr. Gillespie had an interview with Lord Glenelg yes terday at the Colonial Office. Mr. Cecil Godschall John son had also an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday. The Russian, Turkish, French, and Hanoverian Ambas sadors transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Depart. ment. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign Department for Lord Ponsonby, the British Ambassador at Constantinople ; and for the British Charges d'Affaires resident at the Courts of Persia and St. Petersburgh. Despatches, dated the 7th of July, were received yester day at the India Board from Lord Auckland, the Governor- General of India, and from the Officers administering her Majesty's Government at the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay. Despatches from Sir John Colborne, Governor of Lower Canada, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from Sir J. C. Smith, Governor of British Guiana. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Coun cil sat yesterday. There were present—The Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Lord Brougham, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, and the Chief Judge in Bank ruptcy. Sir Edward East sat as a Privy Councillor. Sir William Follett for the appellants, and Mr. Sergeant Span kie and Mr. Lloyd for the respondent, were heard in an appeal from Madras, " Stephen Lazar and his wife Tharnar Lazar v. Colla Ragava Chitty." Lord Denman stated that their Lordships considered the appellants entitled to their judgment ; the decree of the Sudder Adawlut must be reversed, and the original decree of the Pro vincial Court must be revived ; and the appellants also to have costs both in the present appeal, and also in the Court of Sudder Adawlut. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset in Park-lane; Viscount Loftus in St. James's-place; Admiral Sir George Cockburn, Bart., in Pall-mall; Rear-Admiral Mundy in Grosvenor-street; the Earl of Euston in Grosvenor-place; Lady Louisa Stuart in Gloucester-place • Sir John Broughton, Bart., in Dover street ; the Hon. Pleydell Bouverie in Hill-street ; Colonel and Mrs. Anson in Hill-street ; Mr. Granville Penn in Gros venor street ; Sir Jas. Cockburn, Bart., in St. Jobn's Wood, Regent's Park ; Colonel Sir Joseph and Lady Whatley in Hill-street. DEPARTURES. The Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, from Mivart's Hotel, for his villa at Richmond ; Viscount Maitland, on a Continental tour ; Colonel and Mrs. Wallace and family, from Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, for Dover; Colonel and Mrs. L. P. Jones, from Batt's Hotel, for Bath : R. W. Barlow, Esq., Mrs. Barlow, and Captain Barlow, R.N., from ditto, for Farnham, Surrey. CHANGES. The Duke of Leeds at Hornby Castle, his seat in York. shire, from a visit to Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield ; Lord and Lady Worsley, at Sprot. borough Hall, near Doncaster, from the family seat, Brocklesby Hall, Lincolnshire ; the Marquis and Marchioness of London. derry, at Seaham Hall, near Sunderland, from their seat, Mount Stewart, Newtownlands, Ireland ; the Dowager Lady Suffield, and the Hon. Miss Macdonald, at Dover, from Brook House, Charlton; Sir Jacob and Lady Johnstone, at Hackneys, near Scarborough, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Hare wood, Harewood House, Yorkshire ; Sir Charles Dalbiac, in Yorkshire, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, at their seat near Kelso. Baron Lowenberg, Grand Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca, returned to Mivart's Hotel, on Saturday evening, from Newmarket, having completed his purchases for his Royal Highness. OH Saturday the Duke of Lucca went incog. to Windsor, to view the scenery of that delightful locality, accompanied by Baron Ostini. The Royal Duke, unlike most foreigners, is particularly partial to :everything English ; and his Chamberlain and the Keeper of his Privy Purse are both Englishmen. His Royal Highness has engaged apartments for a lengthened period at Mivart's. The Governor-General of India, Lord Auckland, G.C.8., has appointed James Parish, Esq., senior Member of Council, to be Lieutenant-Governor of Bombay and its dependencies, until the ar rival of the successor to the late Sir Robert Grant. His Excellency has appointed Major Orlando Felix to be his military secretary, the gallant officer having attended the late Governor to India in the same capacity. Lady Grant and her infant family are expected to return home by the first ship from the Presidency. CALAIS.—On Saturday the Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh, accompanied by the Earl of Dalkeith, Lord Scott, Earl of Howe, and Viscount Emlyn, arrived here, from Dover, where they had been staying since Wednes day. Their Graces were not able to cross the Straits be fore, owing to the boisterous weather which has prevailed during the week. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, and the Ladies Russell, are to leave Brighton to-day, for Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. The Duchess will not see company this Christmas at the abbey, in consequence of the recent de mise of Lady John Russell. The Marquis of Couyngham will shortly leave town, for Slane Castle, County Meath, and Mount Charles, Do negal, his estates in Ireland, for the purpose of inspecting them. We understand that his Lordship, who a short time since was desirous to resign the office of Lord Chamberlain, at the solicitation of her Majesty continues to hold that high appointment in the Queen's household. Buckingham Palace is filled with workmen employed in the repairs and improvements now in progress. A por tion of the wall extending from Queen's-mews to the Con servatory will be rebuilt, and the alterations will not be completed until the return of her Majesty and the Court from Brighton in the middle of the ensuing month. The apartments of her Majesty at Kensington Palace have been also undergoing a course of decorative repair. Mr. Hay Mackenzie and Mr. Charles Mackenzie (Scotsburn) , sh o t t h ree sp l end id stags i n M r . R oss o f Cro marty s plantations at Carlrossie , on the 27th inst., in three hours.—invernetf Herald. THE EARL OF DURHAM. only remedy for the evils they experienced, and the best mode for insuring the future good government and pros perity of the Colony, were not prepared to acquiesce in the scheme which they understood his Lordship was about to suggest, but which even, if ultimately rejected by them, was certainly a very reasonable proposition, for the first subject which would present itself for Lord Durham's con sideration, on his appointment to Canada as High Com missioner, would naturally be, how am I to form a system of legislation for Canada, whereby I can secure such a majority of loyal and well-disposed subjects as will pass Acts that will remedy existing evils, and provide for the future peace and prosperity of the Colony? Will a Union of the Provinces effect this? No !—Numbers will then be against me, as the United Legislatures would still contain a majority of disaffected. Therefore, the scheme of a " Federal Union" does now appear to many, who at first objected to it, to be the easiest method of meeting the diffi culties for gaining a constitutional ascendancy in the Ca nada! ; and the Constitutionalists haring ascertained that Lord Durham had abandoned that part of the plan to which they were most opposed, and that the plan itself was but a suggestion upon which his Lordship invited the opinions of th e whole of the Colony, it gradually became a matter of consideration and reflection, apart from a feeling of hos tility and annoyance ; and becoming convinced, from his Lordship's efforts and anxiety to acquire information, and the many valuable measures which they found to be in progress, that his Lordship had really the welfare of the Colony at heart, they now considered him entitled to their fullest confidence and support ; and although they may deeply regret that circumstances should have occurred to cause the premature termination of Lord Durham's Go vernment, yet, perceiving with his Lordship, that the mo ral influence of his authority had been rendered powerless in th e colony, they felt that the true interests of the Ca nadas would be best consulted by his Excellency's imparting personally, to the British Parliament, the experience and information acquired by him during his residence in the country ; which, it is to be hoped, will now enable it to devize and determine some definite Legislative enactment for the future government of this valuable portion of the British empire. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —The consistent opponents of the Earl of Durham, now that his Lordship is daily expected to arrive in the Metropolis, seemed puzzled in what way to create a preju dice in th e p u bli c m i n d aga i n st him for relinquishing his Go vernment of the Canadas, they baring, in the first instance. supported that faction whose successful malevolence weakened his Lordship's authority, and drove him to the alternative to which he has found himself compelled to re sort ; but who, subsequently, in their attempts to justify the system of annoyance pursued by them against Lord Dur ham, am! of predisposing the public against him, have only assisted in making out his Lordship's case, to their own con fusion ; for notwithstanding the construction which one of its Journals is now pleased to put upon its own former de claration, when the " Ordinances" of Lord Durham were disallowed, that "Lord Durham or the Ministers must resign !" the public no doubt received it in the sense it was then intended to convey, viz., that the moral effect of Lord Durham's Administration, would be so impaired that it would be impossible for him to carry on the Government of the colony. That Canada was in a most difficult position when Lord Durham assumed the government, the organ of his Lord ship's factious opponents, itself declares, even when calling in question the validity of the only measure afforded his Lordship of disposing of the rebel chiefs in the prison at Montreal, who prayed his Excellency, by petition, to dis pose of them in any way be might think proper, " they not wishing to disturb the peace of their country by the excite ment which their trials would produce ;" for that Journal (questioning the authority which Lord Durham supposed had, or ought to have been delegated to him) says, "there is one thing self-evident throughout this whole matter, namely, that the authority vested in Lord Durham proved altogether inadequate to the emergencies in which the Noble Lord found himself within a very short period after his arrival at Quebec. A civil war had been raging, many rebels were made prisoners, flagrante Bello, with arms in their hands ; was it not obvious therefore to every man, who could see an inch before him, that such prisoners must be disposed of somehow or other? Could there then have arisen a more grave or critical consideration than what fate was to be assigned to the arch delinquents?' " Certainly not. Therefore Lord Durham gave the subject his " grave" consideration, and finding that he could by the " ordinances" so much complained of, blend justice and mercy together (the expediency of which act he naturally conceived would be recognised and confirmed by the Home Authorities, and approved of by the whole of the English community), he resorted to what he conceived the most merciful way of relieving the province from the "arch de linquents." _ I would beg in conclusion to observe, that although (frorn'tny personal interests being identified with the wel fare of Canada) it is but natural that I should wish to see its prosperity promoted, my only motive in submitting the present statement for the consideration of the public is an act of justice to Lord Durham, which I humbly conceive his Lordship may fairly - expect from every loyal and con stitutional Canadian, who is aware of his Lordship's endea vours and exertions to benefit the Canadas, but in which he was unhappily frustrated. A CANADIAN CONSTITUTIONALIST. London, December 3, 1838. A Correspondent whom the Times has quoted, in an effort of great wisdom, says, " Why did not Lord Durham frankly as well as prudently pray Ministers to obtain from Parliament the authority ?" It may be said, in reply, that if the Canadas were situated at a distance of 30 instead of 3,000 miles from the spot from which the authority was to be asked,theGovernor might think it prudent to suspend the ope ration of a peculiar exigency, till " a return ofpost!" hut this not being the case imperative necessity demands, under such circumstances, the exercise of discretionary authority ; and it may be here observed, that unless Governors of distant THEATRES. COVENT-GARDEN. Last night the " two houses" entered the lists in honour. able rivalry. The Drama was the subject with one—Opera with the other. The story of Switzerland's hero formed alike the theme of both ; Rossini's master-piece at the " Lane"—Knowles's noble play at the " Garden" ; and happy are we to record another of that long series of triumphs which, at Covent-Garden, the cause of the Drama has gained under the management of Mr. Macready. Next, after the revival of Shakspeare's unrivalled dramas, and of the works of the elder English dramatists, do we think it the duty of a modern manager to bring forward those of more recent authors, who have caught something of the spirit of their great models. Among these, Sheridan Knowles ranks pre-eminent. We know of no modern dra matist who has so imbibed the fine, healthy, national, old English feeling, that pervades the ancient drama. His subjects are so chosen, and his characters so drawn, that they never fail to fasten themselves on our interest and sympathy ; and more especially so, as he generally, in his more serious plays, appeals to that ardent spirit of liberty which, whether it be exhibited in the stern Roman resolve of Virginius, or the heroism of Tell, will always find a hearty response in the breasts of Englishmen. And that thus it was, though we expected to find a good attendance at Covent-Garden last night to witness the repro duction of his Williant Tell, notwithstanding the almost irresistible attraction at the rival " house,"—we were not prepared for the crowded audience we beheld, and for the prolonged burst of enthusiasm which hailed the appearance of his hero, in the person of Mr. Macready—and in which were mingled, intelligibly enough, respect for the author, admiration for the actor, and esteem,: and gratitude to the manager. colonies are vested with large discretionary powers, the colonies (from the delay in communicating with the Home Government) must continue to experience many evils which prompt and timely executive decision might prevent. Lord Durham was, therefore, perfectly correct in stating in his " Proclamation," that, "if the peace of Lower Canada was to be again menaced, it was necessary that its Government should reckon on a more cordial and vigorous support at home than had been accorded to him, and that no good could be obtained by his continuing to wield extraordinary legal powers of which the moral force and consideration was gone." And in this declaration his Lordship is fully supported by the loyal inhabitants in their several addresses to Lord Dur ham on ascertaining his Lordship's intention of retiring from the Government, for in the sth resolution of the Quebec address, it is resolved,—" That they deeply lament the premature discussion, in the British Parliament, of the measures of his Excellency the Earl of Durham, and the course there taken, tending as they have done to weaken the moral influence of his Government, to encourage the disaffected, and to create apprehension in the minds of the loyal."—And the Ist resolution of the Montreal address, states that, " after the arrival of the ordinances' in Eng land, they were brought under the discussion of the Inl►pe rial Parliament, on which occasion a majority voted them partially illegal, and as such declaration, is calculated to impair his Excellency's autho►ity, and paralyze his efforts for the successful settlement of our dculties, it is under stood that lie has resolved to close his mission and return to England." It were superfluous to say much of a performance so well known, so deservedly appreciated as Macready's 'Fell. It is one of his finest, his most effective impersonations. It was the very personification of the hardy spirit of moun tain freedom,—so beautifully combined with a character in which the softer and the sterner virtues are exhibited with such truth and power. The scene with the tyrant Gesler, where under the dreadful trial which history has commemo rated, the emotions of the father,and resolution of the patriot, working upon each other, produce a pathos and an interest scarcely to be equalled in any modern drama, was marked by a strength and vigour of acting, and at the same time a fine perception of all those affecting traits of feeling that characterize Knowles's dramatic poetry, which was abso lutely thrilling. Mr. Macready was admirably supported. Mrs. Warner looked the beau ideal of a Swiss patriot's wife ; while Ward, as Ceder, and Anderson, as Michael, did all that was required for their respective parts. The scenery and costumes exhibited all that correctness of taste and excellence of effect which distinguishes the ti cula r present management of Covent Garden , The former, par slyu,bwlimase and a su s e n c e e w ss_i e o e n p o t f m a e d u m ut ir e a iu b s le . views of Switzer land'sßut the audience experienced a treat in the music of Rossini's opera, of which the overture, the entre-acts as they are called, and a considerable quantity of introduced music was composed. Though, perhaps, we may question the propriety (as a general rule) of introducing singing into a serious drama, yet it were ungrateful not to express the high delight we received from the performance of that splendid music, alternating, as it does so beautifully, from exquisite and s weetly-flowing melodies to grand bursts of majestic harmony and martial sounds. At the fall of the curtain the enthusiasm of the audience (whi c h had manifested itself all through at the close of every act) burst out into tremendous and long-continued cheering, and was not to be silenced till Macready, M rs . Warner, Ward, and Anderson had successively appeared to receive their plaudits. In the upper province the address of the loyal inhabi tants of Cobourgh states in its 2d resolution, that "with out expressing any opinion upon the legality of those or dinances, we lament the discussion of their validity at the present period, as calculated to inspire the disaffected in Lower Canada with a belief that the crime of rebellion may continue to be committed with'impunity, and to render a settlement of our difficulties more remote and un certain." The address of the loyal inhabitants of Toronto contains the following remark :—" The peculiar and unpre cedented difficulties in which the affairs of British North America were involved when your Excellency assumed the Government, ought to have secured for the acts of your ad ministration the most liberal construction, and should have obtained for them the cordial and unwavering support of all those who are interested in the peace and prospe)ity of these colonies and the integrity of the Britisk Empire ;" and, in fact, similar expressions of public feeling in nume rous other addresses presented to his Excellency, all tend ing to show the peculiar difficulties with which his Lord ship was beset, and to regret that party spirit should have reared its unhallowed crest to interfere and check those measures of vital benefit to the colony which his Lordship had in progress. It is true that the spirit of these ad dresses not being in accordance with the views of the organ of Lord Durham's political adversaries, they have not had that estimate placed upon them which they merit ; but their force will be best ascertained by the following extract from the communication of " An Englishman," in Canada, to the editor of the Montreal Gazette of Oct. 20 : " It requires some object of intense interest to draw the merchant from his counting-house, the lawyer f rom hi s _._ office, the tradesman from his shop, and the artisan and labourer from their respective avocations at this busy season, with a loss of time and money to each and all of them, to pay the honest and emphatic tribute of re spect and confidence which THREE THOUSAND Britons offered to his Excellency on Tuesday last ; in England it is a very different matter, nine-tenths of the spectators at a public meeting are the idle or unemployed, but here every man in the crowd that carried up the address, materially sacrificed his interests to a manly and generous feeling ! and, indeed, to the dispassionate and candid mind, it must be obvious that the Colonists are the parties principally affected by and interested in the policy of their Governors, and, notwithstanding the opinions to the contrary, on this side of the Atlantic, they best know what is for the benefit of the colony, and certainly the loyal inhabitants of Canada have, by the respectful and constitutional representation of what they conceived to be for the trite interest of the colony (as well as hitherto defending and preserving it from the wicked attempts of a revolutionary faction to sever it from the British Crown), given the most correct views of the policy which ought to be pursued if Canada is to remain a part of the Britishempire! and they must, therefore, regret that the persecuting opponents of Lord Durham, should, by an unfair and unjust scrutiny into the acts of his Lord ship's Administration, and the apparently malevolent mis construction of the principles upon which they were founded, have placed the Colony in its present critical situation ; for had the " Ordinances" not have been in terfered with, the rebel refugees now in the United States, who are actively employed in meditating an attack upon the loyal Canadians, would have at least remained passive as a recommendation to her Majesty, or the Executive of Lower Canada, to permit their return from banishment ; but when they became acquainted with the fate of the " Ordinances" they then persuaded themselves that their cause was just l—that a sympathy for them had sprung up in England—and what they had previously believed to be an act of mercy in Lord Durham they now denounced as illegal and cruel ; and, consequently, internal demagogues showed themselves, who had never before been suspected, and the deluded " habitans" were led to believe that the Governor had no power to punish ! and that they might and ought now determinately to resist and retaliate upon les Anglais for the unjustifiable treatment to them during the late revolutionary contest ; the influence of which, upon the Canadians, soon became apparent in the result of the trial of the murderers of Chartrand. To recapitulate a " moielie" of the arts and contrivances resorted to by the malignant adversaries of Lord Dur ham, to bring his Lordship into contempt and ridicule with the British public, is not here necessary, as they are generally too inconsistent and absurd to require either refutation or comment ; but one of their efforts is of too spiteful a character to pass unnoticed ; viz.—the insinua tion that Lord Durham and Sir John Colborne were not on good terms, which it is gratifying to find his Lordship has publicly and unequivocally declared to be false and utterly groundless. And with respect to Lord Durham's proposed plan of a " Federal Union of all the British North American Provinces," upon which his Lordship's opponents visited such summary denunciation, it may be observed that the Constitutionalists having, previously to Lord Durham's arrival in Canada, formed a conclusion that " a Union of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada" wee the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 183 DRURY LANE. Guilleaunze Tell, the last and best of Rossini's operas, was eich b certainlyouout at this theatre last night, i n a manner which does great credit to the management. Thi s p king proof of the versatility as well as t h e greatness 4ht f s the i composer's genius. By his p rev i ous pro ductions he laid himself open, in a remarkable degree, to the charge of mannerism. In Guilleaunte Tell, however, every trace of his manner at once disappeared. His pecu liar phrases of melody, his favourite modulations, his florid ornaments, his accustomed modes of accompaniment, all disappear ; but we not only have no vestige of Rossini, but no vestige of the Italian school. His simple and austere melodies, c lothed with the rich and highly-wrou g ht harmo nies of the Germans, do not admit of Italian embellishment, and Rubini or Grisi would be as little at home in this by means of voc a l h armony an d striking o music as in that of Weber or Spohr. Its effects are pro duced r iefly ombinations. Th ere are not more than ch orchestral t r chiefly c ombinations. two or three airs in the whole piece, and the principal character, Tell himself, has not one. There are, however, several fine and most dramatic ducts ; and these, as well as the concerted pieces, co n t a i n many admirable solo passages for the principal performers, which, if they do not afford room for the display of vocal execution, put to the test the performer's power of giving utterance to the language of passion. Feeling, energy, and just and emphatic declama tion, are the cheif requisites for the principal performers in Guilleaunze T e ll. T h i s b eing the case, it may be supposed that Braham was em i nently happy in his personation of the hero of the pi ece. Any dimin u ti on th a t may h ave t a k e n place in the compass and flexibility of his voice was hardly, if at all, per ce i ve d , while his thorough conception of the author's me an i ng, and his power of giving it the truest ex pression, a p peared in all their lustre. His rec i tatives were model s o f musical speech, and one of them i n parti cular, expressive of the agonies of the father doomed to be the murderer of his son, was hardly inferior to the un rivalled " Deeper and deeper still." His reception by the audience was worthy of his noble performance. Mr. Allen was very successful in the character of Arnold. He is a young singer of great merit, and his merit is beginning to be appreciated. In the great duet with Braham in the first act Mr. Allen left little to be desired. Miss Romer, in the character of Matilda, sang admirably, and her whole performance o f the part was equal to t h at o f it s P ar i s i an representative, Madame Dorus- Gras. The slight part of Tell's wife r ece i ved ample justice from Miss Betts ; and Miss Poole, as Tell ' s young son, acte d an d sang very sweetly. The remaining parts were well performed by Giubilei, Stretton, and Stansbury. The chorus was un usually numerous and effective, and the orchestra did its duty most admirably. In every part of the performance the good effects of Mr. Bishop's discipline were very evident; got up in in on an Englishdelicate thearre a . nd subdued tone. The scenery : The house was very full, and the opera received great applause. at this the a t re Was mad© last n i g h t , OLYMPIC. Another pleasant addition to the stock of entertainment in the shape of a bur letta, called The Queen's Horse, or the Brewer of Preston. The drollery of Keeley, who represented the principal per sonage, kept the house in a roar of laughter throughout the piece. It so happens that Mr. Thomas Tubbs, the brewer of Preston, a little man of the most peaceful turn of mind, is the very fac-simile, in face and form, of his bro ther, Dare-devil Dick, a lieutenant in the regiment of " Queen's Horse," under the Duke of Cumberland. The burletta opens on the morning of Mr. Thomas Tubbs's birth-day, when the excitement of the occasion emboldens him to make the long-contemplated offer of his hand to the charming Mary Wakefield. He is accepted, but his joy is damped by the awful intelligence that the rebels are at hand ; that the Royal troops, the identical " Queen's Horse," are coming into Preston ; and that an engagement is expected to take place on the spot. Next comes the corporal of the " Queen's Horse." search ing after Dare-devil Dick, who has exceeded his leave of absence, and who is to be broke, if he does not make his appearance within an hour. The brewer convinces the corporal that he is not Dare-devil Dick, but out of fra ternal regard is persuaded to mount regimentals and pass for his brother, on being assured that the rebels are re treating. Become Lieutenant Tubbs for this occasion only, he is frightened out of his wits by the appearance of a strapping naval officer, the brother of a damsel with whom Dare-devil Dick has eloped, who demands instant satis faction from the pseudo-lieutenant. The horror into which Thomas Tubbs is thrown by this dilemma may be conceived, and it is not lessened by his escaping from his fiery naval antagonist on the back of a horse, which carries him into the thick of the battle, where in his desperate ex eitement he performs wonders. The unhappy little man's terrors are at length removed by the re-appearance of the real Dare-devil Dick, who had been taken prisoner by the rebels ; and so the piece ends. Of these bare materials the most is made by Keeley, and he was cleverly supported by Mr. Brougham, as the Irish Corporal. The burletta was completely successful. ADELPHI. A new burletta, or piece de circonstance, in two acts, "founded on a recent act of heroism on the northern coast," and entitled The Wreck at Sea, or the Fern Light, was last night produced at this theatre, formerly so cele brated as the place for representation of nautical burlettas, with decided success. Mrs. Yates was selected to fill the principal character of Grace Darling, and an actress better fitted for the task could not have been found. Her per formance was forcible, and, what was better, natural ; and she both looked and acted the heroine in humble life admi rably. The circumstances immediately connected with the wreck would in themselves have formed a poor plot for a melo-drama for the Adelphi, and the author, with whose name we are unacquainted, was driven to employ other means than those which were sanctioned by facts to make up his tale. For this pur pose a lover is naturally given to Grace, who is the mateof an Indiaman, and who is returning home in the Forfarshire of which the brother of Grace is the commander, to hii na tive village, to claim his affianced bride. In the storm which arose Harry Stannion behaves with much gallantry, and, from the experience which be has received in his trips beyond the coast, he is enabled to render much assistance to his future brother-in-law. He is thwarted, however, by the obstinacy and treachery of the seamen, and the wreck of the vessel is the consequence. The scenery is exceedingly well managed, and in the last act the representation of the steamer during a storm, the masts and paddle-boxes being carried away, and a part of the crew washed overboard, re minded us of the burlettas produced in the times of Ma thews and Terry, and which gained for this theatre the credit of being the only place where nautical effects were successfully produced. Independently of the at tractions which the mere circumstances of the wreck enabled the writer to throw into the piece, there are others of a less important but equally amusing nature, and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. H. Beverley, Mr. Wilkinson, and Mr. Wright (an actor who possesses considerable talent), are called upon to display their comic powers. Mrs. Keeley was, as she always is, most excellent in her performance, and she inspired her character of Dolly Daisy, a waiting maid, with two beaux to her apron-strings, with a liveliness which its author had failed to give it. Mr. Collins, too, is also em ployed to lend his aid to the production, and although his qnalities as an actor, judging from the powers which he displayed last night, are but slender, his singing of two rather pretty songs, national i n th e i r names at l east, ent i t l e d " Albion's - Queen," and " The Dark-blue Sea," elicited considerable applause. The burletta was given out by Mr. Yates for repetition every evening until further notice amidst considerable applause. SADLER'S WELLS. The success of the Pickwickians last year at the Strand Theatre is, if we may judge from the number of competi tors coming forward for a share of the profits, to be sur passed by Oliver Twist this season. Hammond stood alone in his glory ; not so Davidge, for fourteen days have barely elapsed since the commencement of Oliver Twist at the Surrey, yet we have Honner, the lessee of the Sadler's Wells, starting in opposition—like the managers of Drury lane and Ccvent-garden with Joan of Arc, &c.—with a dramatic piece, composed, of course in a condensed form, of the leading incidents in the touchingly written tale of the parish boy. If the popularity of Boz's writings is to be judged of by the eagerness with which they are univer sally read, or the peals of applause with which the theatre going community greet those portions of them which have been dramatised, we should should say that he stands first among the foremost, of the present day at least, who have successfully sought public approval, and, we might add, public cash. The piece at the Sadler's Well, performed for the first time last night, comprises Oliver's progress at the " Farm" —his removal to, sand udden elopement from, the under takers—his meeting with the Artful Dodger, and introduction to the Jew—his arrest—trial and acquittal for pocket-pick ing —his subsequent recovery by the Jew, and first expe dition as a cracksman—and his ultimte good fortune. Mrs. R. limner, as Oliver Twist, elicited, and highly me rited, the most unqualified applause. Her performance was generally mildly melancholy, sometimes tenderly , touching, but never insipidly sombre or violent, except indeed when Oliver is wrought up to fury by the slander of the lubberly charity boy of a parent dead ; but whose memory was dearly cherished. Her countenance, which but a moment before was overcast with sweet but sad repose, became suddenly flushed, and as quickly pale ; and then o'crspread with crimson, and then again losing its colour —undergoing a succession of changes as the varied passions within rose and fell ; and her eye, in which but now youtful buoyancy seemed expiring in the glassy gaze of withering sorrow, was in an instant lighted up, and darted forth the fiery glare of passions roused to madness : a moment she stood thus, and in the next she pounced upon the calumniator of a mother's honoured name ; and we must do her the justice to say she mauled him well— we had almost said scientifically—and received for thanks the loudest thunders of the Gods. Mr. R. limner rea lized our idea of Boz's pen to our entire:satisfaction. The avaricious, cunni ng , and time-serving Jew was exposed in his naked loathsomeness and deformity of mind, without one single reclaiming virtue to mollify our hate or to move our sympathy. His malicious chuckling, when his detestable purposes were gained—his unscru pulosity of the means by which they were accomplished— and his servile and artful flattery, or awful threatenings, as the case required., to those whom he selected as the means, were well and powerfully pourtrayed. If we would select any one part of Mr. Honner's acting, as that in which he was most powerful, we should say in the scene laid in the condemned cell in Newgate, where the old Jew is exhi bited communing with himself upon the past, present, and future ; but to whose self-addressed sentences we listen in vain for one word of sincere regret for the life of crime he had led ; on the contrary, every better thought keeps distant from him then, as they did through life, and all his soul is fixed on release from confinement, to act anew the part he had before sustained. Pardon, he knows, he cannot obtain, and the thought goads him and rouses him to frenzy, and in his desperation he summons all the strength and energy left in his enfeebled faculties to effect his es cape by force, but he summons them in vain, and with the effort he falls exhausted. The actor understood and fol lowed the author closely in this awfully impressive scene, in which the wretched Jew could neither look with satisfaction on the past, nor view with hope the future, but stood giddy on the outermost verge of a precipice, in a moment to fall in the dread abyss below, and saw not a hand outstretched to help, and knew that no heart would pity him. Miss Richardson did ample justice to the character of Nancy, and was very effective in her acting, when she gave vent to those touches of better feeling by which she was now and then moved. The brutal, desperate, and feelingless Sikes, without a thought or feeling, but which belonged to fierce villainy, was well personated by Mr. J. Lee, as was the Artful Dodger, by Alr. J. W. Collier. Mr. Conquest, as Air. Bumble, the Parish Beadle, excited roars of laughter, in which he was for a time assisted by the Parish Under taker (Mr. Harwood) and his wife (Miss Pitt). On the whole we unhesitatingly say, that we have not seen for a long time a dramatic piece of this description —and of course making some allowance for its necessarily condensed form -a more faithfully representing the original, or one in which the characters are more appropriately filled up and more faithfully realised ; and we most cordially concede our meed of praise to the dramatist, the manager, and the whole company, without exception. Mrs. Honner, who was loudly called for when the curtain fell, came forward and announced its repetition to-night and during the week, amidst deafening applause. After which Mr. Honner, who was shouted for, made his appearance, and returned the audience his best thanks. The farce of the the Lottery Ticket followed, and the drama of the School Fellows concluded the evening's amusements. f , , , FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The Triton, of the line, Captain Hammelin, and bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Gallois, arrived at Toulon on the 28th November. This ship comes from Smyrna.—Moniteur. A letter of the 22d November, from Bologna, is as follows :—" Count Zichy, son of the Minister of War in Austria, and attached to the Austrian Legation at Rome, has brought to Bologna the final order for the departure of the troops, and the route which they are to take, in order to have quitted the Legations by the 29th of this month, as well as the arrangements made in concert with the Papal au thorities for the replacing of the garrisons, the delivering up of the fortresses, barrack stores. &c. The squadron of cavalry, of which the vanguard left Bolhgna yesterday, set out this morning. These troops took the road to Ferrara. Those in Romagna have also began to move; part will go to Ferrara by the road to Argenta, as was said at first, and another part will pass through Bologna. The Austrian gar rison of Bologna will be replaced by an equal number of papal troops, viz., Dragoons, Carbineers, and chiefly by corps of the Swiss Legion. The Swiss Artillery has received orders to come to that city. The Court of Rome had been solicited to grant a political amnesty on the evacution, but it has refused, as it is said, alleging that if it granted it now, the amnesty would be considered a concession to France. Accordingly it defers granting it for some time.—Journal des Debats. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 25.—General Narvaez has accepted the in vitation of the Sevillians to take the Presidency of their Junta. He arrived on the 18th in Seville, along with Cortina, the Commissioner sent to inform him of the appointment, and bas entered already on the duties of that perilous office. He was received outside the town by General Cordova, at the Cruz del Campo, and after a cordial (I) embrace, the two Generals entered the city among the cheers of the inhabitants, who illu minated their houses in the evening, in celebration of this strange event. The principal personages of the drama are thus fairly launched on the stage, the first act gone through, and expectation at the highest pitch here for the denouement, perhaps for the ca tastrophe, which is much more likely. Narvaez, as I informed you in my last, has some prestige in the south, and may, by judicious conduct, continue to form an element of the movement going forward, but his success entirely depends on himself. The slightest swerving on his part from the line chalked out by the movement party must at once terminate his career, perhaps effect his ruin. The people lam inclined to think, are not and will not be deceived with respect to their friends and their enemies. As to Cordova, the public mind is already made up here as to his not holding long the reins of Government in the province. It is obvious that the conduct of b,,th Narvaez and Cordova has been directed to secure, if possible, a counterpoise in the south to the power of Espartero in the north. In this respect omitting the thousand other cir cumstances of their position, it is the case of Cwsar and Pompey ; but upon how odious and small a scale ? In this, however, neither of these personages has the slightest chance of successful opposition to Espartero. With all his faults, he commands, as a military man, the greatest share of popular prestige in Spain of all others. The appointment of a thoroughly national and liberal Mi nistry, supported by him and Van Halen, would of course bring the south of Spain into harmony with the north and centre, and thus, in one hour, leave the two heroes of the Seville revolution without a soldier or a subject. This is the course which the exigencies of the hour demand ; but Alaiz cometh not, and until he do we shall have no Government. In consequence of his non-arrival none was appointed last night. The folly of delay on the part of the Queen, and those around her, has ceased to be spoken of with patience. A most violent debate took place in the Congress, and in deed in the Senate yesterday, on the subject of the Malaga elections. These elections, as you are aware, took place dur ing the state of siege. The validity of the returns was con sequently attacked, and the great and angry question of all the certainly disgraceful proceedings of the Moderados in that town was of course dragged into the discussion. The details of such a purely local and personal affair can of course be of no possible interest to your readers. After a violent alterca tion between the speakers who took part in the debate, the re turns were voted approved by a small majority. There is 110 local or other news of interest here to-day. Senor Aguilar, late Spanish Minister, in London, had arrived in Corunna by the last accounts from that place ; but, though expected by his friends here to-day, has not yet arrived in Madrid. LATE AND IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MEXICO. (From a Second Edition of the Times. " FALMOUTH, DEC. 2, 10 P.M. " The Swift packet, Lieutenant Ni elch, so long most anxiously looked for, arrived this morning from Mexico, har ing left Vera Cruz on the 6th, Tampico on the 14th, and the Havannah on the 27th of October last. " The most important intelligence brought by this vessel is confirmatory of the arrival of the French squadron under Rear- Admiral Baudin, on the 14th of October, off the Ha.. vannah, en voyage, for the coasts, and the next packet will, no doubt, eommmunicate the result cf the attack ou the fortress of San Juan de Ulloa, which it was un derstood, would be made the moment they had all ar rived, being provided with bomb-vessels and other mate riel for the operation. Meanwhile, the Mexicans themselves were neither idle nor lacking spirit, and, beside every prepara tion being made for a stou t resistance by greatly augmenting the stock - of provisions and improving the defences to the most possible capability, loans had been obtaincd (though upon very ruinous conditions) solely to pay the troops on the coast. On the other band, the Government, owing to its pe cuniary exigencies, and the great curtailment of the revenue, was in an embarrassed position, and it augured rather badly for the party in power that they had found themselves under the necessity of arresting Gomez, Ferias, and several other Chiefs of the Liberal class. Despatches from France, brought by the armed store-ship Fortune from Toulon, and under date to the 28th of July, had reached the commanding offi cer, but nothing had been decided as to what further measures should be adopted with respect to the dif ferences in dispute. The French brigs of war, Eclipse and Laurier, stationed to the northward, had been dismasted in a gale on the 12th of September, and taken into Sacrificios, but subsequently reched the Havannah under jury -masts ; in ad dition to which casualty, the two frigates Herminie and Iphi genie, the former with Commodore Bazoche and M. De lisle on board, bad sailed from Sacrificios about the Ist of October, it was supposed for the Havannah or the neighbourhood, to cure the great number of sick they had on board, 1,0 that the efficient force on the coast had been materially reduced. Only one merchant vessel had lately appeared off Vera Cruz—the Colombian schooner Constancia, from Jamaica ; and as she was warned off, it was inferred the French did not intend capturing neutrals, unless attempting to break the blockade after they bad been so warned off. An in surrection had taken place at Tampico, the military having re volted against the Government authorities in consequence of not obtaining their pay and provisions. This, however, bespoke little in favour of the French, beyond the injurious consequences of disunion to the parties themselves ; for a very strongly patriotic spirit had been spread among the Mexicans, arising from a belief that the French Government seriously contemplated placing the young Prince de Joinville upon the throne of Mexico and upsetting the Republic. Mr. O'Gorman, the British Commissioner and Consul-General, embarked on board at, Sloyi, on the sth of October, under salutes from the batteries, and was otherwise highly complimented upon his departure. The Sheldrake packet, from this port, had reached the Havannah, and proceeded for Vera Cruz ; and the Swift _ met the French squadron between Tampico and the Haven nah : they consisted of three sixty-gun frigates, two corvettes, five brigs of war, two bombs, two steamers, and fourteen store ships and armed transports, having on board 2,000 artillery men embarked at Toulon. Admiral Baudin's flag was on board the Nereide. When they were off the Havannah, the corvette Creole, commanded by the Prince de Joinville, the Glorie frigate, end the Sarcelle store-ship, were detached for the city, and arrived in port on the 20th of October, whence they again weighed on the 27th eodeni, and would be followed by the Eclipse and Laurier brigs before-mentioned, when re fitted. The Swift has brought on freight full 1,250,000 dollars, and 126 serons of cochineal, and has experienced very dreadful weather the last fourteen days. " Information has been received hcie by Captain Plumridgc, of the Iberia steamer, which left this port on the 26th ult. with the Peninsula mails, having been disabled in the late gales, and driven into Mount Bay, with loss of rudder, and a temporary one also. In consequence, the Meteor Govern merit steamer has been ordered to the westward to take her in tow, and bring her to this port. " lip to this (10 p.m.) the Tagus steamer, from Gihraltar, Cadiz, &c , has not made her appearance. The weather is still unsettled, and disabled vessels continue to arrive daily, suffering from the effects of the late dreadful gales." Miss Walker, the sister and housekeeper of her brother, who was lately foreman to Sir John Rennie, the engineer, w as f oun d d rowne d i n t h e water-c i stern on Thurs day last. It is presumed that the unfortunate lady had fallen in by accident.--Scotsman. NEW REMEDY FOR DEAFNESS..--The new remedy, creosote, which was discovered by Dieffenbach, of Berlin, and has been found useful in the a lleviation and re moval of many painful diseases, has been recently em ployed in the treatment of deafness dependent on deficient secretion of cerumen, and proves to be a valuable remedy. It is used in a diluted form, as it would otherwise be too potent a stimulant. Dr. Holland and Sir Benjamin Brodie visited his Excellency the Russian Ambassador yesterday, at Ash_ burnham House ; a nd the in q uiries after his Excellency were very numerous. The Count, we are happy to state, is in a state of c onvalescence, but he was much shaken by his fall, which occurred in the drawing room. The Greek Minister, Prince Soutzo, had a long conference with the Ambassador yesterday. Eaton Hall, the Marquis of Westminster's magni cent seat, will be full of company at Christmas. Earl Grosvenor and his Countess have arrived on a visit from Motcombe House, in Dorsetshire. Lord and Miss Begot Capel, and the Hon. Mrs. Warrender, and the Hon. Miss Arden, sister to Lord Alvanley, and the Lord Bishop of the diocese, have been among the visitants. THE BOLTON AND BURY RAILWAY.--There have been two fatal accidents on this railway during the past week,